Stargate Atlantis: Torri Higginson guest at UFC (Nov 2-4, 2007)

[wraithfodder]

Just got an email from the folks at United Fan Con (UFC), an annual scifi event held in Springfield, MA. This weekend it will be over November 2-4, 2007.

Anyway, got an email which announced this (snipping out non-SGA stuff)

United Fan Con is pleased to announce 2 additional guests for our upcoming November (2nd-4th) show!!

Joining us:

Featured Guest
Stargate Atlantis' Dr. Elizabeth Weir: Torri Higgins

To purchase tickets please to go our website:  http://www.unitedfancon.com

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I went to this con last year as David Nykl was there. It was great to see him, but I almost didn't see him because the con instituted what many of us stuck in line thought was a completely anal idea that those people who bought tickets at the door could NOT get in to see the first panel. Of course, David was the first panel! I managed to get in courtesy of two very nice fans at the top of the line who let me join them. They said after this, they probably wouldn't do the con anymore as it wasn't worth the grief. (By the way, it was great meeting David Nykl, and only took me over 3 months to get my photo op photo from the con, so I won't be doing a photo op again, that's for sure).

Anyway, it's not a good sign when the con doesn't spell the name of one of their featured guests correctly. There's nothing on their site about Torri yet, but hopefully she won't be talking on the same day that Paul McGillion is talking down at the NJ Creation Con. I could conceivably do both cons (but what a hell of a lot of driving!) if the actors are on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. UFC does, however, have a  much better dealer's room than Creation, which is limited to half a dozen tables mostly manned by Creation staff selling photos.

So, is anybody doing either of these cons?  

 

 

Comments

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Email said....

Joining us:

Featured Guest
Stargate Atlantis' Dr. Elizabeth Weir: Torri Higgins

Bonus Guest
Classic Star Trek`s Janice Rand: Grace Lee Whitney

These ladies join

• TV Icon: Henry Winkler

• Battlestar Galactica's Crewman Cally: Nicki Clyne

• Babylon 5's Capt. Elizabeth Lochley: Tracy Scoggins

[foreverseenstar.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much. :-) And the whole incorrect name thing, very sad. It reminds me of Creation's inability to spell McGillion correctly on tickets and site ads. *sigh*

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

That's pretty sad. I'd say it shows they're just a business and not fans, but a business should have the brains to spell the 'product' name correctly ;) Or guest, but to Creation, they're a product...

[ladyniko.livejournal.com]

It's creation & they suck big time. They won't even touch the St. Louis market because we're not "big enough" for them. (I.e., the fanbase isn't willing to pay their prices!)

I wish I could go, but no job yet = no $$. Need to start finding MT clients.....

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Hmm, and they don't even do cons in NYC and that HAS a market. They're just too cheap to rent the venues there. NYC is much more convenient to lots of folks than NJ is.

[ladyniko.livejournal.com]

Creation is just evil. They like to play cheap & dirty too - one year they were supposed to have Jimmy Doohan come out to HI and be a GOH. They decided they didn't want to pay his fees, so they went and told everyone he was dead, so then, they went back to him & said, "Oh, we're sorry. No one wants to come see you in HI. We're not going to pay your fee for this appearance."

Really underhanded. I'm glad they don't come to STL for that reason, but I wish the actors wouldn't get signed up w/ them, because they are so damn evil.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Ugh. Really? I do recall at least two instances where actors cancelled out months before hand, but they didn't tell folks until you were at the door.